[GLLUG] Gentoo

[Alec Joseph Warner]

Charles Ulrich wrote:
> Alec Joseph Warner wrote:
> 
>> I would suggest learning a lot about how the package management works, 
>> I'm the developer who primarily manages the portage docs at this 
>> point, and I've been looking to revamp them as they generally assume 
>> knowledge that normal users don't have.
> 
> [snip]
> 
>> If you need to roll your own packages, ebuilds are easy to write, and 
>> fit snugly in a portage overlay for your emerging convenience.  This 
>> certainly takes some time to learn ( I am no ebuild master myself ) 
>> but is worth it if you do a lot of ebuild modifications.
> 
> 
> Would you be willing at some point to give a presentation on the basics 
> of constructing and maintaining ebuilds? You're certainly right about 
> the docs. Numerous times I've wanted to write or tinker with an ebuild, 
> but the docs don't seem geared towards non-developers and I've always 
> wondered if that was intentional. ;)
> 

You assume I'm good at writing ebuilds, which is a bad assumption :), 
but if people are interested I can give an overview sometime.  The 
docs...pretty much it's best to look at 
/usr/portage/profiles/skel.ebuild and kinda play with it a bit.  There 
are some very impotant concepts that the docs don't cover well, 
specifically how eclasses work and how the cache works that a lot of new 
ebuild writers mess up the first couple of times.

The question then would be, when is this happening?

-Alec Warner